It’s been a long year. I know they are all 365 days (usually) but this one has taken a lot of coffee and adulting to make it through. I also had a lot of help in the form of mental escapes thanks to all of the books I read this year. This was my second year doing a book challenge from @indiebookstoretour on Instagram! And for the second year I was excited about the literary feat I achieved considering my full time job/pilot wife/mom/volunteer schedule.

1. A Book Crowdsourced from a Facebook Post – LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE

2. A New to You Book by an Old Fave Author – PRINCESS DIARIST

3. A Book Your Family Member Recommended/NPR – THE POWER

4. Free Read – THE MEANING OF MICHELLE

5. A Book from Outside a Genre I Usually Choose – HYGGE

6. Re-read a Book You Read 10 Year’s Ago- CAMEL BOOKMOBILE

7. A Winner of the Man Booker Prize – LINCOLN IN THE BARDO

8. Free Read – WHY NOT ME?

9. A Book You Heard About From an Old Friend- IT’S MESSY – ON BOYS BOOBS AND BADASS WOMEN

10. A Book Reccommended by an indie bookstore employee: ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

11. A Book Published Over 100 yeas ago- LOOKING BACKWARDS

12. A Book Set in Your Home State – PRETTY GIRLS

13. Free Read – CORK DORK

14. A Book People Can’t or Couldn’t Stop Talking About – HIDDEN FIGURES

15. A Chapter Book You and Your Kid Picked Out – PAX

16. Free Read – EL DEAFO

17. A Book You Got Out of a Little Free Library/Recycled – A GIRL NAMED ZIPPY

18. A Book with a Protagonist of a Different Race Than You – WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

19. A Book You Never Would Have Chosen by the Cover – IF I UNDERSTOOD YOU WOULD I HAVE THIS LOOK ON MY FACE

20. Free Read – HOPE NEVER DIES

21. Bonus Book: Restores Your Faith in Humanity – BRAZEN

22. Follow a bookstore on Instagram and read a recommended book -CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE

23. Book by a famous author you’ve never read – CRAZY RICH ASIANS

24. Book written by a local author – MINORITY LEADER

25. Book published the year you were born -THE HIDING PLACE

26. A book you probably should have read in school – ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOOS NEST

27. A self published novel – A FALSE START

28. Extra read – TODAY WILL BE DIFFERENT

29. Extra read – NEVER LET ME GO

30. Extra read – BECOMING MICHELLE OBAMA

Bring on 2019!